You Can Now Get Sonic Drive-In's Ice (aka the World's Best Ice) at Home
If you’re an apartment-dweller in any of our beautiful 50 states, having an ice maker in your fridge is a luxury you never thought you’d miss-until you moved into your first place without one. I mean, shouldn’t this be common place now? Enter, the countertop-ready, Opal Nugget Ice Maker, which has literally changed my beverage game.
I have one of those horrible, super small, standard apartment refrigerators with the freezer on top, fridge on bottom. This system might work if you never cook and never freeze anything-but this is not my life! If it was, then I'd have plenty of room for those awful ice molds that have to be replaced regularly (or is that just me?).
But seriously, no matter how much you love those things you legitimately lose half the water just getting those damned things from the faucet to the freezer (though your floor is happy, since it might get you to finally mop-again, maybe that's just me). In either case, your ultimate goal is simple: You're just trying to get a room-temp beverage up to ice cold refreshment. It shouldn’t be this hard.
Here’s the good news: While you're likely limited on space if you live like I do, you'll ultimately find this investment worthy of that precious countertop square footage (ahem, unlike your fancy stand mixer that just comes out for holiday cookie swaps). Trust me, the Opal Nugget Ice Maker is totally worth it.
The ice alone makes it a must-try. If you've ever been to a Sonic Drive-In, you're no doubt addicted to the crunchy-yet-not-tooth-shattering texture of these little ice pellets. They're so popular they've gained their own cult following, with people Googling how to make it at home so often that it appears as one of the first related questions in search results about the fast food chain's ice. Well, fans everywhere, rejoice: The Opal Nugget Ice Maker makes frozen water that's pretty much identical to Sonic's, as far as I can tell.
Beyond that, the Opal's super simple to use. Just connect the hoses behind it (completely built-in-no plumbing line required), plug the unit into a power outlet, add water to the tank, and in 20 minutes you’ll get your first morsel of ice! All in all, it will produce 3 pounds of ice and reuses the melted water, so the only time you really need to refill is when you go hard on the margaritas (lots of ice required). Oh, and if you forget to refill the reservoir, the little blinking light in the middle signals you to add more H2O.
Even better! This thing can live ANYWHERE. Since no plumbing is required, this can be stored in the kitchen (obviously), but also in your basement for movie night, your he/she shed or wherever you like to kick back with a cold one.
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